“Man
is all Imagination and God is Man and exists in us and we in him. The
eternal body of Man is the Imagination and that is God Himself.”
(William Blake) We are told that the Bible is the word of God;
therefore, if God and man are one, it must be man’s word. Now,
a scriptural episode is not a record of an historical event, but a
paradoxical revelation of truth. Accept this, even though you may not
understand it, for when scripture is experienced, you will know it is
literally true! Paul tells us to follow the pattern of the sound
words which you have heard from me. Guard the truth which has been
entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit which dwells within us. (II
Timothy) Here we are called upon to guard this truth, for only as we
follow the pattern - which is the truth - are we saved. If all things
are possible to your imagination, and you are all imagination, you
should be able to accomplish anything and fulfill every desire. But
first you must be willing to believe you are all imagination! It’s
entirely up to you. Do you believe you are mortal man - or all
imagination?

Living in infinite states, the basic state
from which we operate is our body of belief. If you believe you are
limited, your thoughts flow from that belief. But if this principle
is true, and you place a modification on that body of belief, you
should produce a corresponding change, as your outer world is forever
reflecting your inner thoughts.

Genesis tells us that
the serpent, the symbol of our fall, is the most subtle (often
translated as “wisest”) of all of God’s creatures.
In Proverbs, the personification of wisdom says: God created me at
the beginning of his ways, the first of his acts of old. Then in 1
Corinthians, Christ is defined as the power and wisdom of God. If
this is true, then who is the serpent? The churches teach that some
strange dragon led man into this world of sin and death. But when you
understand scripture you will realize that Jesus Christ (God’s
power and wisdom) is the serpent! It is he who brought us into the
world of generation, and it is he who redeems us by raising us into
the world of regeneration. This I know to be literally true. John
tells us: “No one ascends into heaven but he who first
descended, even the Son of man. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up.” (John 3) Here
we see that infinite power and wisdom took the form of man - the
limit of contraction, by entering the state called Satan - the limit
of opacity. To Satan there is nothing beyond the physical sense of
sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touch, as he is confined to
the limit of opacity and contraction.

We are called upon
to exercise this power that sacrificed itself and became us. As Blake
said: “I know of no other Christianity, no other gospel than
the right both of body and mind, to exercise the divine art of
Imagination.” By exercising the divine art of imagination, you
can prove to yourself that you can go beyond what your eyes, reason,
and senses dictate. Exercise this art by daring to assume you are
what your reason and senses deny you. Persist, and to the degree you
are self-persuaded of its truth, the outer world will change, for it
is forever conforming to the belief housed within you.

Infinite
power and wisdom took on the form of a person by descending into you.
His descent is your capacity to generate here. One day he will turn
around and, as the son of man, you will ascend into heaven. But no
one can ascend into heaven who has not first descended. He who
descended came in the form of a serpent. This I know from experience.
You, too, will know this to be true when your body is split from top
to bottom, and the furnaces of affliction become fountains of living
water. We came here to experience our own, individual furnaces of
affliction. But when your spiritual body is split, you become living
water springing from humanity, and like a fiery serpent you ascend
your spinal cord. The 21st chapter of Numbers tells us: “The
Lord God said to Moses, ‘Make a fiery serpent and set him on a
pole and it shall come to pass that everyone who is bitten, when he
looks upon it, shall live.’” Why? Because he enters into
life in himself! This statement, as every little episode in
scripture, is a rough sketch, an adumbration, a foreshadowing for
time to fulfill in experience.

Now let me share an
experience of a friend. In his dream he is constructing a large
building, knowing that his father is creating one greater than his.
Although he never sees his father, he knows that one day he will be
as great as he. Suddenly he sees a black and white tree snake, picks
it up and watches it coil around his right arm. Then the snake began
to speak, telling him of the husband she loves, but has lost. The
scene changes and my friend is now standing on a new building site
with a pole standing upright in the center. Ascending the pole is the
same snake, who turns around and starts its descent as he awoke. Here
is a perfect adumbration, for only that which descends can ever
ascend. I know it doesn’t make sense on this level; but just as
Moses lifted up creative power in the wilderness, so have I, as the
Son of man, been lifted up. How? In the form of a serpent! The
creative power of Imagination descended by turning his head down into
generation. His power, now reflecting in this world, must be
reversed. This cannot be done by any conscious effort. The reversal
takes place when the spiritual body is split in two from top to
bottom. Seeing the fountain of living water, your creative power
fuses with it, and up you go into heaven, just like a serpent. Blake
described this as: “The furnaces of affliction suddenly become
fountains of living water, all springing from humanity.”
Everyone is destined to enter that fountain of living water, rise
from this level into which he descended, and understand the words of
Blake: “I do not consider the strong man, the weak man, the
rich man or the poor man, to be in an ideal, supreme state, but to be
everyone of them states of the sleep which the soul may fall into in
its deadly dreams of good and evil when it left paradise following
the serpent.”

In the third chapter of Genesis, wisdom
(the serpent) speaks, saying: “Did God say you would die? You
will not surely die.” And in that same chapter God declares:
“Behold, man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil.”
Now, knowing good and evil, the serpent promised that if you would
descend and partake of this knowledge, you would awaken like the
gods. Simply automatons, knowing nothing, you lived in a dreamlike
state until infinite wisdom said: Follow me. So you left the world of
innocence, and entered the world of experience to return to the world
of Imagination, from whence you started. And when you return, you are
all Imagination, and nothing is impossible to you. But before you do,
you can test your creative power knowingly. Do you know someone who
is in need? Bring him before your mind’s eye and see his need
fulfilled. Lose yourself in the thrill, the feeling of joy for your
friend. Do nothing on the outside to make it so, simply persist in
seeing him in his new state, and no power on earth can stop it from
being so. If you think he can oppose you, you are looking at the
world of Satan, for there is no physical other. God is one. There is
no opposition save that which you create for yourself!

Try
to follow the pattern of these words which you have received from me.
It is the same pattern as recorded by Paul, as the same God who
revealed his Son in Paul revealed his Son in me, revealing me as the
Father. Paul knew he was God the Father when he said: “When it
pleased God to reveal his Son in me.” This truth comes from
revelation; so, like Paul, I am asking everyone to follow the pattern
of the true words which you have heard from me, for I have
experienced scripture and know it is not secular history. The stories
of scripture are paradoxical revelations of truth, which happen
naturally. The golden liquid light you see is the living water which
you become as you merge with it. Then, as a living fountain, you
ascend from humanity in a serpentine motion.

Now,
another friend wrote saying she found herself in the depths of the
earth, in a cave whose walls were hewn out of rock. The only object
present was a jar with a human face carved upon it. As she became
aware of moving in and out of the jar, she realized that the jar
itself was a head with its top removed. Returning to investigate, she
found it empty, and awoke. Again I go back to Blake: “He has a
sepulcher hewn out of a Rock ready for thee. And a death of eight
thousand years which he has forged for thyself.” Blake saw the
sepulcher forged out of rock, ready to receive the death of eight
thousand years. In Blake’s symbology 8000 does not necessarily
mean years. Eight is resurrection, a new beginning. The Sabbath is
the seventh day, the day prepared to lead one up to the eighth day,
called resurrection.

This lady entered the sepulcher in
which Man is placed, to meet the one who sent her, who is the Lord of
the air! Blake, whose works are all vision, said: “God Himself
enters death’s door with all who enter, and lays down in the
grave with him in visions of eternity until they awake.” So her
vision was perfect, as it parallels those of Blake. The Book of Mark
begins: “Repent.” That’s revision! That’s
changing your thinking, thereby changing your belief, which causes a
corresponding change in your world. In this lady’s vision, she
reminded herself to revise now and not put it off until a later date.
This is so true! Imagining creates reality, for waiting will cause
you to find the problem more difficult to overcome, so change it the
moment you sense it. Always revise now! Let me repeat. You are
destined to awaken as God! Although the serpent - the symbol of your
redemption - seems to have betrayed you, he has led you from
innocence to experience, to one grand Awakened Human
Imagination.

Learn to adore your humanity, your spirit
of life! Worship God by worshipping your own wonderful Human
Imagination! You want to love God? Love your own spirit, for he is
Christ. Remove humanity from you and you will not exist, so learn to
adore your humanity, for that is your spirit of life. You may not be
able to draw a straight line, yet you can create a smile on the face
of a friend, or erase the lines of worry or age. You can do all these
things, not by turning to another, but by using your creative power,
the only God! Blake makes this statement: “Thou art a Man, God
is no more, thine own Humanity learn to adore.” Humanity is
your spirit of life! Turn to the only God, who is your own wonderful
Human Imagination! Learn to adore him. All things are possible to
God, therefore, all things are possible to imagine! Knowing what you
want, ask yourself if you believe that your imaginal acts are
committed by God. I tell you, they are!

In his 14th
chapter, John tells you that imagination is his spirit of life,
saying: “You believe in God? Believe also in me.” Can you
believe your imaginal acts will come to pass? That your desire is
real, and live as though it were? If you imagine - and imagining does
create reality - you will see your desire appear in your world. If it
does not, then you have proved that the principle is false. I tell
you the principle is true - according to your belief! There is no
limit placed on your ability to believe or on what belief can
accomplish. No matter what you desire, when you believe you have
received it, you will. Can you believe that the only true God is in
you? That you can follow the pattern of the sound words you have
heard from me? I urge you to guard this truth which has been revealed
to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. Don’t look for
any Holy Spirit on the outside! There is no one to run to but self,
for everything is within you!

Now let me share another
experience of the man who had the dream of the pole and the serpent.
He said: “I wanted to make more money, but I did not feel
qualified for a better position. Regardless of this fact, I decided
that I wanted to earn twice as much as I was presently making, and I
imagined having it now! Within two weeks I was contacted for an
interview. In the past, I have had to sell myself, but this time the
company was urging me to take the position offered, which included a
salary greater than double the present one. Strangely enough, the man
who had recommended me was a man who formerly worked for me, and when
he left, there was intense dislike on both our parts. After the
interview we met on the outside, and when I told him of my fears he
said, ‘I know you are the best man for the job.’”

I tell
you: there is only one cause, and that is the Human Imagination. When
you change your body of beliefs, everyone must and will play their
part to produce evidence of that change in you. One who was formerly
an enemy will play the part of a friend. I thank my friend for
sharing this story with me and urge you to follow his example. Dream
nobly! Think of lovely things you want to recall, and you will
experience them in your tomorrows.

Blake was so awake!
It was he, who said: “Everything is Man. The lion, the tiger,
the horse, the elephant, mule, dove, fly and worm, all are glorious
persons. Clothed in gems, they fly away to humanize in the
forgiveness of sins according to thy covenant, O Jehovah.”
Awakened Imagination knows there is nothing but God, and God, being
Man, becomes the worm to feed the weak. Knowing there is nothing but
Imagination, Blake said:

“Double the vision my eyes do
see. Double vision is always with me. With my inner
eye it is an old man gray, with my outer a thistle across
the way.”

Every day, with my old friend Abdullah I
would practice this art. At dinner he would ask me to look at the
lampshade. He didn’t mean for me to see the lampshade - anyone
can do that - but to focus my attention through it. Looking beyond, I
would see living, breathing human faces. Other times he would ask me
to look at a car, a house, a wall - not with my outer eyes but with
my inner eye; and when I did, I would always see Man. When I first
began to do this I had to break it, because I could feel myself
moving through and beyond this world, to see an entirely different
world. That’s Imagination!

Although this world
seems to be the only reality, it is but a gossamer dream. And when
you leave here, you will once more feel that where you are is the
only reality. This you will do over and over again until God’s
pattern of salvation unfolds in you. Then you will follow the pattern
of the sound words that you have heard from me and guard the truth
which will be imparted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells in all.
He has revealed salvation’s pattern to me. Having entrusted me
with that truth, I have told it and will continue to do so until I
can tell it no more. Then someone else will pick it up and continue
the pattern.

The Bible, from beginning to end, is simply
a book of patterns. Claiming there is only one source of all dreams,
who is God, the story is told of a man called Joseph, the dreamer who
was placed in a coffin in Egypt. So who was placed in that coffin,
but God! It is God who descends and takes upon himself this concrete,
opaque state called Joseph. It is recorded that Joseph was the third
son of Jacob, born to him in his old age. And Jacob was the son of
his mother’s old age. And Jacob’s father was the son of
his mother’s old age. Do you see the pattern repeating itself
over and over again here?

This book of patterns will
unfold in each one of us. How long it will be before the pattern
unfolds in you, individually, only your heavenly Father knows. I can
tell you this, however: it will happen in your old age! When you have
had all of the experiences life here can give you and you seem to be
barren, the child will come. That is my promise!